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“People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.”
– Jim Morrison

Confined

He goes to bed each night alone with the ache His internal conflict keeping them both awake Wakes up weary every morning lying beside his vanity With a smile for his children and a check mark for his sanity

Physical versus mentalin a battle of his pain Sensory and substantialis thesignal from his brain From necessity and habit you conceal what you feel It’s mind against matter with wounds that won’t heal

Scar tissue and time The confines of the mind Self-motivation Self-preservation Selfishly suppressing the pain Scar tissue and time A safe place to hide
He fights the painHis wounds remainSustaining himself from inside

An actor playing himselfin the true story of he
Absorbed in the role of everyman
and that’s who he has to beScripted by circumstancehe has lines on every page
Penned for his own purposes
he is resplendent on his stageA song written in his head
but needed by his heart Lyrics intended for healing they’re upbeat from the start Motivation for mind and body Affected, but indeed sincereHe givesa selfless performance for everyone to hear

Scar tissue and time The complexities of the mind Self-medication Self-preservation Selfishly deflecting the pain Scar tissue and time Enduring another dayDifferent roots of painNo Ledger or CobainDetermined to go another way

Scar tissue and time You conceal what you feel It’s mind against matter When wounds never heal

Scar tissue and timeIn theconfines of your mind You ascend another day Starting from behind